Re: [Cfrg] Identity-based 923-bit encryption broken

Paul Hoffman <paul.hoffman@vpnc.org> Thu, 21 June 2012 14:59 UTC

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From the discussion of this topic on one of the cryptography lists, I think a better subject line would be "Some identity-based ...".

Having said that, there is still a dearth of analysis from EC folks on this paper and the one that preceded it.

--Paul Hoffman